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Koocher, Gerald 103
kuru 75–8, 79, 83, 96, 98
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La Sapienza 42–3, 44
Lacks, Henrietta 128
Langmuir, Irving 164
Laplace, Pierre Simon 161
larvae and evolution 288
laughing gas 110
Lee, Benjamin 180
Leisure, Age of 230
Leonardo Da Vinci 28
Lewis, Gilbert 163–5
Lewontin, Richard 52, 186
lichen 183
Liebniz, Gottfried 7
life artificially-created 145–6
lifespan and life expectancy 249
light, Einstein’s theories (and other people’s studies) 27–8, 63–9
see also E = mc2
Lilienfeld, Julius 166
Lindergren, Carl 191
Liu, Hung-Ching 152
Loewi, Otto 24–6
Lovelock, James 221–2, 227
LSD (lysergic diethylamide) 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 111, 243–4, 245, 246, 247, 259
Lubock, Sir John 179
Lucasian Chair of Mathematics (Cambridge) 214
Luidia sarsi 188
Lwoff, André 177
M
McClintock, Barbara 171–80, 239–40
McElroy, Michael 226–7, 240
McPeters, Richard 229
mad cow disease (BSE; bovine spongiform encephalopathy) 79, 83, 84
Maddox, John 250–1
magnetism
Earth’s magnetic field 202–3
electricity and 30, 35–6, 38
electron motion and 57–9
see also geomagnetic storm
maize genetics 172–4, 178
malignant tumour see cancer
Manhattan Project 30, 31
manipulation of data see misbehaviour
Manuelidis, Laura 81, 83, 85
Margulis, Lynn 181–7
marijuana (cannabis) 22, 243, 244, 246
Marshall, Barry 111–25, 247
Martina, Cardinal Renato 142
Martinson, Brian 55, 59, 62
Marx and Marxism 213, 214
Masiarz, Frank 91
Massey Energy 238
mathematics
Maynard Smith, John 185, 186
measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and autism 126–7
Medawar, Peter 5, 13, 17, 48, 165, 248–9
Medical Research Centre (Cambridge) 242, 244, 259
Meitner, Lise 154
memory (silicon) 209, 211
Merck, Emanuel 26–7
Mereschkowski, Konstantin 182–3
Merton, Robert 213–14
Merz, Jon F. 71–2
mescaline 243
methylphenidate 23, 24
Michelson, Abraham 49–50
microbial symbiosis in plant and animal evolution 181–6
microwave radiation, cosmic 10–12
Miller, Alan 225
Miller, Arthur 196, 198, 199
Millikan, Robert 44, 48, 49, 50–5, 58, 67, 73
misbehaviour (incl. manipulation or falsification of data/fraud/dishonesty) 43–74
cloning studies 127
misfolding of prion proteins 98–9
MMR vaccine and autism 126–7
modafinil 23, 24
Molina, Mario 222–3, 224, 225, 226, 227
Monod, Jacques 177
Montreal Protocol (1978) on ozone-depleting chemicals 230
Moon 160
Earth seen from 15, 17
tidal motion and 46
Morley, Edward 49–50
mosquitoes and yellow fever 125–6
Mott, Nevill 212
Mrak, Emil 232
Mullis, Kary 18, 39, 111, 112, 246, 257
multiple sclerosis and hookworm infection 131–2
mumps, measles and rubella vaccine and autism 126–7
mutations 173, 184
Mycoplasma mycoides 145–6
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NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
Antarctica ozone layer 227–9
asteroid visit 205
black holes 196, 197
Earthrise photos 16, 17
global warming and 237
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe 10–11
National Academy of Sciences (NAS) 201, 203, 205, 220
Barbara McClintock and 177, 187
Lynn Margulis and 187
ozone layer and 224, 225, 227 see also Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Nature
drug use among readers, survey 23
peer review 250–1
scientific misbehaviour report 48
Nayernia, Kim 148–9
Nazis and unethical experimentation 107
Necator americanus 129–32
Nelson, Michael 241, 254
neo-Darwinism 184, 186
Nernst, Walther 164–5
neurodegenerative diseases, prion-related 75–100
neuroscience 24–6
neutron(s) 92
nuclear reactions 30, 32, 33, 195
neutron stars 190
Newton, Isaac 6–7, 44, 48, 64, 66, 160–1, 169, 214
misbehaviour 46–7, 74
reckless behaviour 109–10
Nichols, David 244
nickel metal hydride battery 210
nitrous oxide 110
nuclear reactions atomic bomb 30–3, 247
fusion reactions
reactors 205
room temperature 83–4
stars 194–5
nuclear weapons